Pride

The annual OutRaleigh street festival happened today for only its second time. Though it looked a lot like the annual pride events over in Durham, I felt that it took on special significance given the looming amendment vote on Tuesday. I'll let the pictures do the rest of the talking.

Cross posted on Amplify

10,000 people went to the Pride Charlotte festival in North Carolina, and it looked like a really awesome event. One group, called God Has a Better, way released a statement on the day of the pride festival that began with this:

We are here today to reach out and resist –– to reach out to the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community with compassion, as neighbors and friends and fellow-workers, and to declare God’s great love for GLBT [gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender] people.
We acknowledge the fact that homophobia is alive and well in some churches, and we renounce and repudiate that hateful and destructive attitude.

Sounds good, right? Well, they decided to start with a “tolerance” message, when clearly they stand for anything but that:

From time to time, a person will come across a situation that makes them think hard about life. For myself, that moment was today.